Rahm Continues to Chip Away
On Tuesday, two more Chicago schools approved a longer school day for this year.
By a narrow margin of 51 percent, teachers at Nash Elementary School, 4837 W. Erie St., voted in favor of a longer school day Tuesday afternoon. Earlier in the day, teachers at Disney II Magnet Elementary School, 3815 N. Kedvale Ave., approved a waiver allowing for the additional instruction time by a vote of 20:4.
Both schools will start the new schedule Sept. 26, which means they stand to gain $150,000 in discretionary funds. Teachers at the schools will receive $1,250 bonuses.
It isn't really amazing that Rahm is doing this. It is amazing that the teachers are selling out for so little.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
35 Comments:
If they change our school, my son will be late for football practice. Unacceptable!
The poor math skills are glaringly obvious. Is it any wonder why Rahm's kids don't attend CPS schools
You can bet Emmanuel's henchmen are out at these schools making lots of vile threats. That is how this little bastard operates. Everything is done under the radar. Even if the media finds out what he is up to they are too afraid to write about it. This little rabid prick needs to be brought down to size before it is too late.
Where is all this money coming from Rahm? I thought you and Island Boy scrapped the bottom of the money barrel just to keep the lights on at CPS. Again we see the lies that are thrown out to the public. The CPS has plenty of cash laying around for THINGS THEY WANT TO DO!
As I stated earlier, these teachers must be idiots. Tutoring for one hour a week, beats the 7.5 increase in hours worked.
Not sure how to link, but a few articles on how the school day is longer than the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
Elmhurst and Glen Ellyn are close to time spent in school.
Too lazy to look up the studies done, but most people can handle about 4 hours of learning per day.
No reason the increase the CPS day by 90 minutes (perhaps 30). Seems like an anti-crime vs alearning move.
And the same will happen to us.
As I stated earlier, these teachers must be idiots. Tutoring for one hour a week, beats the 7.5 increase in hours worked.
Not sure how to link, but a few articles on how the school day is longer than the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
Elmhurst and Glen Ellyn are close to time spent in school.
Too lazy to look up the studies done, but most people can handle about 4 hours of learning per day.
No reason the increase the CPS day by 90 minutes (perhaps 30). Seems like an anti-crime vs alearning move.
9/14/2011 02:09:00 AM
No reason, huh? Checked out the graduation rate lately? Average test scores?
It's very simple - CPS kids need more time in school. In general, suburban kids get a lot more parent support and outside educational experiences, so they don't need as much time in class. Many CPS students lack this and need more class time to catch up to their suburban peers. Sure, there may be a decrease in crime as a result, which is obviously a good thing, but it's not the main reason this is being done.
4 hrs a day? Check out the school day in China..
Isn't it funny how Rahm can go about slowly and stealthily busting the unions in Chicago, but if a Republican governor does the same thing, (think New Jersey and Wisconsin), the liberals will rant and rave and protest and occupy state capital buildings and break the laws while legislators will run and hide in other states so they don't have to do their jobs?
I guess Rahm refined his union busting skills by watching what happened in those other two states... and I guess our city residents are too stupid to realize that that is exactly what is going on here!
The teachers are not selling out for "so little". They may be selling out the union, but they're doing it to give their students a better shot at a decent education. That's hardly a little thing.
All schools will have a longer day next year anyway, but it's great to see teachers willing to start early. They are still being paid fairly for a reasonable work day, and it sounds like they'll even get more planning time, and of course their kids will benefit, which is what many (good) teachers are most concerned about.
This is a classic example of how to break a union...divide and conquer. I thought the dems were the party of the unions, fighting for the common man. When the Govenor of Wisconsin wasn't playing nice with the teachers up there, din't the dems flee the state to this sanctuary? Where is all of the anger now that Rhammy's doing the screwing?
doesw RAHM's detail take his kids too private school?
This little rabid prick needs to be brought down to size before it is too late.
9/14/2011 01:30:00 AM
Just going out on a limb here, but, you are aware that he is about five foot six..... Correct?
Not sure how much more he can be brought down to size.
I heard that even with these two schools jumping on board the union-busting bandwagon, this represents only about 2% of the voting members. I think Karen Lewis still has great number of schools/teachers on her side.
Kind of scary the teachers or anyone would so blatantly turn against their union. Kind of like SCABS!
An extra 90 minutes a day for a 180 day school year.
270 hours.
The teachers didn't even sell themselves for 5 bucks an hour!
On top of working for about half of the state's hourly minimum wage, they won't get a contractually agreed to raise and they'll have to put more into their pensions, retirements and health care plans.
Talk about the blind leading the blind! The mathematically illiterate are trying to teach the illiterate for less than minimum wage.
"Selling out." My guess is that you don't have kids at the public schools. Poor, poor teachers.
You can't bitch about the schools, then bitch about the only proposal that changes anything. The teachers ought to have their own proposal instead of letting Karen Lewis spew to microphones.
It's state law now. It will come in their next contract; like it or not. Some schools are opting for the cash (bird in the hand theory). Hard ball, union busting politics is coming to all unions as their contracts expire and come up for negotiation.
We are the scapegoat for 20 years of political corruption shoved down our throats by King Richard. Ask your liberal neighbors how they like to "pay your pension". When Obama is swept out ala Reagan / Carter, the country will be saved. However, Illinois, the home of Obama, will continue to stink of the democratic sespool that it is.
I'm glad we are still compassionate and can take Maggie Daley to the hospital while her family kicks their feet up, smokes fine cigars and drinks the best wine at our expense. Oh, I guess she had no hand in City politics and had no idea what was going on either. How about an on call ambulance service. Or better yet, HER FAMILY or the other people they made rich.
To all the coppers that signed on to the wipe the Daley's ass detail: F U. Your nothing more than lackies for the mob making increased salaries while the real police serve and protect. When your gravy train stops I wish you can fulfill your dream of being them police, on a beat in the ghetto where the rubber meets the road. But I've been around long enough to know you'll be drinking coffee at the CPIC or Intelligence.
Cops will come much cheaper. Watch. 500 buck retro check and they'd give up just about anything.
How come no one in the press or any of our aldercreatures are asking him where this money is coming from? $150,000 for every school that sells out??? They had to raise taxes to survive but now he has all this to spend??? F**k him and any of these scabs that are turning on the union...if these kids parents don't give a shit about them and get them to school or help with homework why should my tax dollars support care..hopefully CPD and CFD are smarter when our contracts are up...
The 'kids' could spend 23 1/2 hours in school, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of a difference.
Teachers can only do so much, the 'kids' don't want to learn nuffin', and the 'parents' could care less.
Just going out on a limb here, but, you are aware that he is about five foot six..... Correct?
Not sure how much more he can be brought down to size.
9/14/2011 07:05:00 AM
step by step, inch by inch, closer we get to da falls.....
The teachers are not selling out for "so little". They may be selling out the union, but they're doing it to give their students a better shot at a decent education. That's hardly a little thing.
All schools will have a longer day next year anyway, but it's great to see teachers willing to start early. They are still being paid fairly for a reasonable work day, and it sounds like they'll even get more planning time, and of course their kids will benefit, which is what many (good) teachers are most concerned about.
9/14/2011 05:55:00 AM
Yeah its the job of the teachers to visit YOUR kid at home,and make sure YOUR knows how to conduct himself in class! The parents of these kids need to be put on the spot! You can make it a 12 hour school day, if they learn nothing at home. Kids will continue to fail in and out of the classroom! Far as good teachers, at the end of the day they have bills to pay just like everyone else! I wouldn't give the CPD one extra minute for free or "5.00$ an hour"
"The teachers are not selling out for "so little". They may be selling out the union, but they're doing it to give their students a better shot at a decent education. That's hardly a little thing.
All schools will have a longer day next year anyway, but it's great to see teachers willing to start early. They are still being paid fairly for a reasonable work day, and it sounds like they'll even get more planning time, and of course their kids will benefit, which is what many (good) teachers are most concerned about."
Hey Jagoff-
I am paid 8:30-3:00 but I am at work from 7-4:30 and I work at home 2-3 nights a week for an additional 2 hours and Sundays I work 4-6 hours. Perhaps you can do the math? I don't need another 7.5 hours on top of what I already do at a little more than $3/hr, mandated because tiny dancer doesn't want to pay police so he's sticking it to teachers to babysit.
Maybe parents could help their students by making sure they are doing their homework, because you sure do learn better when you do your work.
I will work longer but I will not do it for $3/hr. Neither would you. Unlike me, you do not have to take your work home. I do, so don't tell me what to do with my time for $3/hr.
The reason Rahm is getting away with busting the unions is because he is a DEMOCRAT! Democrat politicians are FOR the little guy. The working guy. The blue collar guy. Things have changed. Now we have pricks like Emmanuel getting elected by common folks and he comes right back and fucks us all to correct the corruption and mistakes of his mmentor for the last 20 years. The Daley story is far from over in this town. The Daley Crime Family has bankrupted this city and we will all suffer for it for years to come. Even now we have Quinn and Madigan in Springfield stealing every last dime they can before they get tossed out by the voters. These two scumbags raising taxes last year and now we are told there will be job layoffs because we are short of money. The Democrat party is just as much at fault as anyone else for the ecomomic mess we are in. Fuck all of the parasites.
Rahm's taking back Ol' ShortShanks doled out.
The CTU president looks like she''s more interested in a ham samdwich than calling a strike. As for that buzzard eating Haitian, who hasn't been around long enough to know how CPS is run, acts admit he's an instant success.
Giving up & giving in without a fight...now that's a democrat Rahmo'bama can count on.
With our Contract looming, whatever is good for them will be just as good for us....just leave it to the arbitrator to decide.
But, as long as FOP holds Rahm's feet to the fire, we'll get that 24% raise this time around !
does anyone now wonder, what Rahm is all about?
I'm a CPS teacher and there's no way I'm selling out for 3 bucks an hour based on the egregious, shameful waste of city money I've seen throughout the years. Stick the worthless, waste-of-space board of Ed "employees" back in the classroom, stop funding the Mac labs at crane and Tilden, allow the students to learn punctuation on a white board rather than an interactive smart board, quit serving kids breakfast, cut out the home school funding for teenaged baby mommas, and pay us our instructional rate, about 40 bucks an hour.
Hey Jagoff-
I am paid 8:30-3:00 but I am at work from 7-4:30 and I work at home 2-3 nights a week for an additional 2 hours and Sundays I work 4-6 hours. Perhaps you can do the math? I don't need another 7.5 hours on top of what I already do at a little more than $3/hr, mandated because tiny dancer doesn't want to pay police so he's sticking it to teachers to babysit.
Maybe parents could help their students by making sure they are doing their homework, because you sure do learn better when you do your work.
I will work longer but I will not do it for $3/hr. Neither would you. Unlike me, you do not have to take your work home. I do, so don't tell me what to do with my time for $3/hr.
9/14/2011 05:57:00 PM
Actually, I'm also a teacher and I do take plenty of work home. But I find it hard to believe that you work that many hours consistently each week, unless you're a first-year teacher.
Parent support would be great, but for most people, it's not happening and there's really nothing teachers can do about it. The longer school day is coming next year, so you might want to reevalate your systems and figure out a way to work a little more efficiently.
And you also might want to learn how to disagree with someone without name-calling...you know, since you're a model for students and all..
Nobody talks about the real problem and that is the friggin parents. They dont give a shit unless little javier or juwhon don't pass 8th grade and then they all of a sudden show up. TOO LATE asswipes! This extension of school hours is nothing more than babysitting the little fuckers because they aren't going to learn anymore. Watch and see.
5:37 Am : That is exactly why it is being done!More time babysitting the little savages means less time on the streets to kill or be killed!You could put them in school 12hrs a day and they be just as dumb when it is all said and done!
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5:37 Am : That is exactly why it is being done!More time babysitting the little savages means less time on the streets to kill or be killed!You could put them in school 12hrs a day and they be just as dumb when it is all said and done!
Babysitting is really the tip of the iceberg. Meals, medical, dental, social work...they're all in place in some schools and on the horizon in many others. "Improving student performance" is the euphemism for the attempt to solve poverty, and teachers are being held responsible for making it happen. And CPS students aren't dumb, per se. Just poor, for the most part, and unexposed to anything remotely educational at home. They spend hours and hours in front of a screen. At the awful schools, their homes are hives of dysfunction, neglect and lack of structure. At the stable, non-magnet schools, they are still 4-5 grade levels behind middle-class kids. (not that this is a news-flash, or anything)
Rahm , have garry mccarthy review all 2nd watch aa sheets . Then dump every commander that hides police officers in the office , fake foot patrols , school cars .
These commanders fooled jfled for 3 years and not afraid of mccarthy.
Do it unless you're the one sponsoring the hidden police officers.
$1250 dollars for 8 1/2 to 9 months of working 90 minutes longer each day. Call it roughly 180 school days X an hour and a half a day = 270 extra hours for a total of $1250 dollars.
In other words, about half the minimum wage.
Why don't they just do their fucking jobs. They make a fucking fortune and only teach classes about half the day.
Why don't they just do their fucking jobs. They make a fucking fortune and only teach classes about half the day.
Is this your true response or more sarcasm? I do my job everyday. True, not all teachers are good/great teachers, but that could be said for any profession. The issue is NOT doing our jobs, its about being treated fairly. Be fairly compensated for the WORK that we do. People say we ONLY work a 6 hour day...TRUE. Guess what? We get paid for a 6 hour day. No more, no less. Why should I work a MANDATORY 7.5 hour day and get paid for less than the 6 I originally signed up for? People THINK we get paid while we're off in the summer. WRONG!!! they took money out our pay during the school year and stretched it out over the summer. All we ask if that we're viewed as actual employees that do a service instead of the people who don't care about the welfare and education of the children. We showed our care and concern on day one. WE are the ones who CHOSE to teach.
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